Reflective Narrative

The end of the semester has arrived and with it we must reflect on everything we have learned. This class revealed a lot of new writing techniques to me as a reader and writer that I had never noticed before. The three main, overarching themes that our group, (Mya, Maddie, and I) agreed were the most important were the implementation of proper quotations, interviewing techniques, and editorial/ formatting issues. Then each one of us took up to writing a brief outline of what the most important parts of each theme were and prepared for the final recording. We originally had planned to do a more interactive presentation in which each member of the group was to act like out the theme they were trying to describe, however it proved to be far more challenging than initially expected so we reverted to a more simplistic approach. This did still help us de ide who was going to cover the different headings. Mya has spent a significant amount of time and effort learning how to review articles for the Bolt and has a naturally measured demeanor, so she was the obvious choice to describe just what was necessary to be an effective copy editor. I was elected to explore the method of proper quotation because I have a tendency for being a stickler about the little details. Finally, it all worked out nicely because Maddie was left with the role of exploring the job requirements of a respectable interviewer. This made the most sense to us because of how open she is to chat. Once we had decided the roles, I then spent my time combing through some of the articles highlighted within the blog-proj and identified what quotes landed nicely, which ones didn’t and why that was. My key takeaways were that the subject should always be given a proper introduction for maximum impact on their quote and that they should not have words doctored without their consent in order to preserve correctness.